I read the original City Lights book a while back. Basically, he was taking
Ayahuasca.
You can see from reading the
Yage Letters that much of the inspiration for the
Naked Lunch came from this brief peroid (heroin doesn't produce visions!). He didn't seem to enjoy Yage much. He talks of 'vomitting the universe." He also experimented with DMT, eventaully taking an overdose.
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I had taken it perhaps ten times - (this drug must be injected and the dose is about one grain but I had been assured there was a wide margin of safety) - with results sometimes unpleasant but well under control and always interesting when the horrible experience occurred ....
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http://deoxy.org/h_wbdmt.htm